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Navigating Risk, Learning Relentlessly: An Interview with Steve Gomberg of Mondegreen Ventures

Jason Malki

From 2006 to 2010, Steve served as Finance Director and a corporate director for Asia Biogas Company, a pioneering developer and operator of waste-to-energy power plants throughout Southeast Asia. I have moved up the food chain and now see companies coming out of the Berkeley & Stanford accelerators.

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This Week in the New York Innovation Community – February 1st, 2010

This is going to be BIG.

The phenomenon, they argue, will accelerate creativity across a larger network. What are the most significant education technology trends of 2010 and beyond? Others, meanwhile, have predicted that it is a passing fad but one that downward pressure on prices on current agency work. So which is it?

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The Future of Corporate Venture Capital

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But the rate of change has accelerated and with it, the balance of internal versus external investment. Since 2010, we’ve. Conventional wisdom dictated that incumbents should focus their innovation efforts on R&D and growing their cash cows while investing in a few startups.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. Contrary to some press reporting, the boom in startups, the creation of accelerators and seed funds as well as the deserved popularity of AngelList do not signal doom for our industry. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry.

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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

TechCrunch

Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. Concurrently, the number of funds raised in the eight-year period up to 2022 was 2,700 , up from 883 in 2010. Importantly, the traditional accelerator model has enjoyed the fruits of these potential paradigm shifts.

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You Need to Win the Battle for Share of Mind

Both Sides of the Table

So as I get around the country speaking at college campus in 2010 & 2011 I have been preaching the same theme. But its focus on solving a real-world problem makes it uniquely valuable to most other social graphs.

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What went wrong at Techstars

Founders Coop

tl;dr + Techstars was once one of the world’s leading accelerator programs, but has steadily been eclipsed by Y combinator. Just two years later, in 2009, we worked out a deal to create the Techstars Seattle program, with our first program running in 2010.